Re: [Exim] RFC 1891 - ESMTP / DSN

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Troy Settle
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] RFC 1891 - ESMTP / DSN
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Troy Settle wrote:

> It seems that one of my customers is using some idiot service
> (http://www.movingbytes.com/) who's mail server is trying to use DSN
> extentions, even though my server is not advertising DSN capabilities.
>
> Is there a way to configure Exim 4.20 to silently ignore DSN extentions when
> a remote server tries to use them anyways?


If you are talking about extension to the MAIL/RCPT commands, then
perhaps an SMTP rewrite could do it. But I would not advise it. As has
been recently said on another thread, pandering to clients that do not
respect the standards is a recipe for long term disaster.

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